Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is an observation only, although it was shared by a number of people who attended the Nutrien yearling sale yesterday. A number of the lots on offer – particularly those prepared or offered by former APG executive Dean Baring – looked doped. By doped we mean sedated. Many of these lots were paraded around […]
90 horses went through the auction ring at yesterday’s Nutrien Sunshine Stars sales (91 if you count Dean Barings disappeared Lot 90 filly). Only 50 of the 90 (or 91) were sold. That’s a clearance rate of just over 50%. Meaning almost half of the yearlings went home with their breeder. I always thought sales […]
Lot 90 was sent into the sale ring at yesterday’s Nutrien Sunshine Stars auction. The filly attracted bids up to $8 000 but didn’t reach its reserve. Then it disappeared. She is not in the catalogue anymore. On the results list (photo at top of story) she is shown as having been withdrawn. It’s not […]
Lot 62 at this week’s NZ National Yearling sale in Auckland on the weekend is a beautifully bred colt by champion sire Bettors Delight out of the dual Group 3 winning mare Spellbound, a daughter of Art Major. He’s a cracking looking type too the colt, tall and rangy yet well structured and strong, with […]
Yesterday’s APG standardbred yearling sale at Ipswich proved yet another disaster for the struggling auction house, with sales revenue and sustaining fees from the sale not even covering half of the promised future prizemoney for the race series for horses sold at the sale. Only 30 of the very disappointing 38 lots put up for […]
First year stallion King of Swing was one of the lone shining stars of the APG Melbourne sale, with his half-sister to star filly Just Hope topping the sale by selling for $82 500, a price well in excess of most market expectations and an outstanding return on his $8 800 service fee. While that […]
The Australian Pacing Gold (APG) yearling sale in Melbourne on the weekend can be described as a disappointing, if you want to be kind. Very disappointing indeed. How many people even knew it was on? We have spoken to a number of buyers at previous sales who say that they were never contacted by APG […]
Where’s that Archie hiding now? A few years bacl I remember laughing at John Symons when he told me that he’d paid $120 000 for a colt by then first season sire The Mission at the March Yearling sale at the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale. “The Mission?” I snorted. “That cat could […]
According to the rumblings we are hearing emanate out of Brisbane, all may not be well in the house of everyone’s favorite syndicator KO Racing. Or should that now be KO & KC Racing Group Pty Ltd, as it seems to be known these days with Kirk Cockburn joining Kobie O’Brien in the ownership group. […]
How do you compete at horse sale with blokes who have as much cash to splash as Yulong’s owner Yuesheng Zhang and his partner Zhijun Zhao? It’s near impossible, certainly for the average racehorse owner. Zhang and Zhao spent more than $11 million dollars at the Magic Millions National Broodmare sale yesterday, and picked up […]
